Summary
Riley Chang is a software engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building production systems across startups and large cloud providers. Their career spans AWS (including SDE and SDE II roles), product-focused engineering at Audere and ReMatter, and current work at Headway, showing fluency in both scale-oriented cloud services and fast-moving startup product cycles. Riley brings practical expertise in shipping reliable backend services and integrating with large distributed platforms, informed by early internships at Microsoft and research experience at the Interactive Data Lab. Comfortable moving between deep technical problems and product delivery, they have repeatedly stepped into roles that require rapid ownership and cross-functional collaboration. Though their public GitHub contributions are minimal in this profile, their progression through AWS and subsequent startups suggests strong system-design instincts and production-grade coding discipline. A University of Washington computer science graduate, Riley pairs solid academic foundations with hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Washington